Project Qualms

[liralen]

So the same lady that designed the Sun/Moon sweater also designed a sweater that has a Phoenix on it, with flames all around the body and a mirror image head on both sides. It's done as a pull over in a flame colorway and in a very elegant black and gray colorway on a cardigan. I've asked the online yarn shop for what it would cost to do the cardigan in the flame colorway in the Jameson and Smith classical Shetland wools and it's nigh on $100 for just the yarn and shipping.

I will admit that I'm very tempted to just get black wool and some of the flame colorway wools and spin my own for less than $40. It would be so strange to pay $100 in order to *knit* the sweater; however... looking at some listings of multi-colored designer sweaters, they're in the $400 range on their own, so it may well be worth doing. Still... it certainly would blow out of the water my baseline instinct of "knitting is cheap".

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[greenlion.livejournal.com]

Knitting is cheap? No, no -- unless you work only in laceweight. Spinning and knitting may be cheap, but I don't get a wheel until we have a house bit enough to fit it in.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

NOW you tell me! ;-)

Spinning is not cheap. *grin* I had nearly $1300 sunk in wheels until I sold the old one, and that's not even counting all the supplies I used to wind the yarn, clean the fiber, prep the fibers, dye the fibers, and all that... and half of that I gave away a while ago, so I have enough to work with, but I was foolish and spent before I had really worked with it for a while.

I'd recommend renting equipment from your local spinning store for a while before buying, and then buying used when you can. :-)

Okay, so buying WHOLE FLEECE of some 12 pounds of dirty wool for $30 seems cheaper than spending $16 per 2 ounces of sock wool, but the amount of time that can be spent is astonishing. Fun, but amazingly large. :-)

[greenlion.livejournal.com]

Shhhh, don't tell tenzil!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*giggles a lot*

[neko-san.livejournal.com]

oooh, is there a picture of the pattern online? (*is dying of curiosity*)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Nope. There don't seem to be any. I haven't seen the Sun/Moon sweater anywhere in images, either, so I suspect that folks aren't tackling it very quickly, eventhough they're in the book. You might be able to check the book out in your local library, as they had the book in our local library. It's "Meg Swansen's Knitting" 746.432 SWA or ISBN 1883010586.

[neko-san.livejournal.com]

okay; thanks for the info! =D